Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918
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Name (Latin)
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918
Other forms of name
Williston, S. W. (Samuel Wendell), 1851-1918
Date of birth
1851-07-10
Date of death
1918-08-30
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Biographical memoir, Samuel Wendell Williston, 1852-1918, 1924
- nuc86-83663: His Osteology of the reptiles, 1971(hdg. on NIC rept.: Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918)
- LC data base, 1/13/87(hdg.: Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918; usage: Samuel Wendell Williston)
- OCLC, Mar. 28, 2003(hdg.: Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1852-1918 ; usage: Samuel Wendell Williston, Samuel W. Williston, S.W. Williston)
- Biography & Genealogy Master Index, via ancestry.com, viewed July 18, 2008 :(Samuel Wendell Williston; b. 1851; d. 1918)
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Wikipedia description:
Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1852 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree). He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera. He is remembered for Williston's law, which states that parts in an organism, such as arthropod limbs, become reduced in number and specialized in function through evolutionary history.
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